The stunning allure of the ocean combined with
the aesthetic beauty of this estate will redefine Luxury Oceanfront living.
Despite local opposition in Somerset that «Hinkley Point C» will destroy
the aesthetic beauty of the Somerset coastline, the government is supporting, and perhaps pressuring, nuclear power in the UK with the development of «Hinkley Point C».
Fascinated by the endless inventiveness and
aesthetic beauty of Bill Traylor's work, Charles Shannon organized Traylor's first exhibition in 1940 at New South — an arts center in Montgomery founded by Shannon and others.
These oil on canvas visions of flattened images slow down the viewing process, allowing the viewer to revel in the pure
aesthetic beauty of line and color.
Through sumptuous renderings of the Vietnamese landscape and culture, Irish celebrates
the aesthetic beauty of the country and her devotion to create artwork that rescinds the effects of war.
The viewer is confronted with
the aesthetic beauty of the flames on one hand and the knowledge of the crimes by Nazi Germany on the other.
Crimes of passion can be pardoned and so looking back to that exhibition, we can only be impressed by the varied
aesthetic beauty of these performances.
The downside to this is that as soon as the player ceases to be engaged in the collection, the intrinsic greed that originally kept them searching falls by the wayside and the longer journeys can begin to become tiresome unless the player is able to enjoy the sheer
aesthetic beauty of the landscape — and this becomes much tougher when the player is intermittently accosted by enemies.
Then it's time to look back at the quaint
aesthetic beauty of the old town.
I will enjoy
the aesthetic beauty of the pro shots but will be happy when you bring back the selfies!
Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mr. Steve Ayorinde in a statement, said the remodelling of the magnificent Gani Fawehinmi statue was part of the State's strategy to enhance
the aesthetic beauty of open public spaces and parks across the state and to celebrate and immortalise worthy icons that contributed immensely to the development of Lagos State.
They add to
the aesthetic beauty of the product as well.
Not exact matches
That the bragging happened a decade ago doesn't change the reality that a man who might be president sees half the country's population not just as objects for his own
aesthetic gratification — we knew that thanks to the
beauty pageants and the string
of model wives — but objects for his physical gratification as well, regardless
of how the women in question feel about it.
Japan — which has its own troubles with perfectionism — has a gorgeous history
of wabi sabi, an
aesthetic sense wherein cracks in clay or wrinkles in skin are signs
of beauty.
The
aesthetic character
of reality means that every worldly value - experience contributes to the divine totality partly through the
beauty that it actualizes and partly through its contribution to the
beauty of subsequent occasions.
Given the distinctiveness
of human existence and the
aesthetic character
of reality, it follows that greater
beauty is served insofar as subhuman existence is so ordered as to maximize the possibilities
of happiness.
Again and again the quality
of a service
of worship is judged by the kind
of music the choir renders, the
aesthetic fitness
of the minister's voice or vestments or manner, the
beauty or ugliness
of the sanctuary, the general decorum with which everything is done.
This is a broad term, but we shall use it to designate the expression
of the human
aesthetic impulse, in both the creation
of works
of beauty and a love for and appreciation
of beauty.
The definition
of art as the effort to exalt some
beauty in nature, but not to enslave man to mere imitation, is Camus»
aesthetic equivalent to the notion
of a dynamic value in nature.
His rejection
of independently existing substance in favor
of a universe in which all entities are related, the idea
of actual entities as valuing subjects prehending and creating themselves Out
of the feelings
of other subjects, the declaration that the most basic form
of order is
aesthetic, and the insistence that the lure toward
beauty and adventure is a primary drive in the process
of reality, are all examples
of Whitehead's fundamental insight that to be is to be related, to exhibit some degree
of beauty in those relationships, and to have the power both to affect and to be affected.
The sense
of beauty is a positive response growing out
of a relationship
of the person to the
aesthetic object.
The
aesthetic awareness
of Wieman, which he had learned in part from Whitehead, was specifically stated in the chapter on
Beauty.
Because I take seriously Whitehead's claim that the most fundamental order
of reality is
aesthetic, and the attendant doctrine that «The real world is good when it is beautiful» (AI, Chapter XVIII, Section III), I want to propose that we use the category
of beauty as the norm in constructing our images
of person - hood and
of personal and communal relations.
In the project
of self - creation throughout his life, man must strive to bring these values into
aesthetic harmony aiming at intensity
of feeling both in its subjective immediacy and in the relevant occasions beyond itself to achieve objective immortality.63 And man realizes that to achieve his individual destiny he must create civilizations which embody truth and
beauty.
It is apparent in an art which is capable
of turning even Campbell soup - cans into objects
of artistic representation (Warhol), or in a music which discovers
aesthetic value in common noises and in listening to silence (Cage), or in a photography which captures the
beauty of doorknobs and cracked walls, driftwood and wrinkled faces.
Beauty is felt when there is some congruence between the
aesthetic object and the observer's pattern
of sense perception and related responses.
This is primarily because it has proven to be a powerful aid in the effort to avoid dealing with works
of art or literature as products
of the human spirit:
aesthetic objects that move us with their intricately wrought
beauty, humor, and insight.
I will state dogmatically: no one has ever succeeded in making sense out
of the idea
of an
aesthetic value so great that all possible
beauty is already in it.
Then there are grades
of aesthetic beauty which constitute the ideals
of different schools and different periods
of art.
Each and every actual entity is a concrescence
of given elements under the aegis
of an
aesthetic impulse toward order, meaning, and value, i.e., toward the emergence
of Beauty.
And, since Whitehead was more explicit on the status
of beauty, we might make Russell's
aesthetic explicit.
Aesthetic value, in the sense
of the
beauty of experience, is the primary issue.
Of course, «beauty» does not refer to the aesthetic properties of nature or art as suc
Of course, «
beauty» does not refer to the
aesthetic properties
of nature or art as suc
of nature or art as such.
The unique, trans -
aesthetic meaning Whitehead attaches to «
beauty» has caused much misunderstanding
of his value theory.
Of a somewhat different nature are considerations of our ethical and aesthetic senses, of the fact that we can recognize right and wrong and perceive beaut
Of a somewhat different nature are considerations
of our ethical and aesthetic senses, of the fact that we can recognize right and wrong and perceive beaut
of our ethical and
aesthetic senses,
of the fact that we can recognize right and wrong and perceive beaut
of the fact that we can recognize right and wrong and perceive
beauty.
The rites have become a more vivid visual and
aesthetic catechesis for a culture whose thirst for the integral
beauty of truth is in equal measure with its deprivation
of it.
Whitehead's solution to dealing with (
aesthetic) evil (disharmony) is the introduction
of a third system
of prehensions which heightens
Beauty and heightens Evil into a greater harmony.
There is
beauty and simplicity in the laws
of nature, and an
aesthetic element in the response
of the scientist.
Beauty, the name
of this all - embracing value, can not be interpreted simply in terms
of aesthetic categories.
Moreover, he corrects Plato, who said that love is the search for supreme
beauty, and declares that love simply is the supreme
beauty.39 In addition, he avers that the whole range
of emotional and
aesthetic experiences in whatever sensory form can be interpreted most illuminatingly as the manifestations and self - enjoyment
of love.40
From an
aesthetic point
of view, the cross is not itself a beautiful thing, but it is the symbol
of a beautiful act, that
of the self - giving
of the Son
of God incarnate out
of love for the Father and for fallen creation, in order to restore the
beauty of what He had made but sin had marred.
Hence we may therefore speak
of an «
aesthetic conversion'that takes place when we recognise
beauty not merely as that which produces feelings
of pleasure, but as «form», understood as «perceivable order, intelligibility and value».
Finite
beauty powerfully points towards the infinite but unreachable
beauty of God, arousing in us who experience it both joy in possession, and pain in the perceived absence,
of the one to whom we may be drawn and directed by a particular
aesthetic event.
Creative intimacy often is linked to
aesthetic intimacy in that what is created together is something
of beauty — a garden, a house, a musical expression, a painting.
One who has earnestness and inner spiritual resources can let his soul be lifted by such
beauty as is present, get along without what is absent, and avoid confusing
aesthetic pleasure with the
beauty of holiness.
This separability is a fault not only because it violates the
aesthetic principle
of unity, held in some form by any theory
of beauty.
So it must be admitted that in maximizing the
aesthetic intensity
of the cosmos and
of the experiences that make up the cosmos, God may be held responsible for at least some
of the chaos that occurs in the cosmic process.28 If God had not lured the process further in the direction
of expanding its value (
beauty), life and consciousness would never have appeared in evolution.
Moreover, Hartshorne's optimism and his
aesthetic passion are voiced in his declaration that the truth which metaphysics discloses is both good and beautiful and that it can never be evil or ugly or objectionable.6 In tones reminiscent
of Plato, he affirms, «Metaphysical truth is in some fashion a realm
of beauty unsullied by any hint
of ugliness.
In short, it is the
aesthetic dimension, the
beauty portrayed in the mind and story
of Jesus that calls forth a distinctively religious rather than merely ethical response from the Christian believer.
In our
aesthetic teleology the individual's suffering is granted a significance in terms
of and in the context
of a universal cosmic
beauty.